Word: brooklyns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Brooklyn...
Besides Desist, seven other men and women were arrested, including Chief Warrant Officer Herman Conder, 35, who was recently transferred from Orléans to Fort Benning, Ga.; Frankie Dio, 48, operator of a Miami Beach nightclub and younger brother of Brooklyn Mobster Johnny Dio; and Jean Nebbia, 52, and Jean-Claude Le Franc, 50, both leading figures in France's Mafia-backed dope-smuggling fraternity...
...Brooklyn last March, two young thugs named Kazle Anthony and Stephen Batten forced three butchers into a walk-in icebox, robbed them of $3,500, shot each of them in the head twice, and finished them off with meat cleavers. After a jury convicted them of first-degree murder, Justice David L. Malbin called the killers' crime "one of the most atrocious in this country...
...dean of Brooklyn's topnotch Pratt Institute Art School, Christ-Janer has precious little time to be in contact with his prime sources. He picks up many of his impressions while flying around the lecture circuit or to Europe, works them out only on weekends. A scholar as well, he has taught in seven colleges since graduating with an M.A. from Yale, written four books, including biographies of the artists George Caleb Bingham, Boardman Robinson and Finnish-born Architect Eliel Saarinen, under whom he worked at Michigan's Cranbrook Academy...
...results, which go on display this week in a one-man show at the Brooklyn Museum, are Oriental in their subtlety, suggestive of the seasons, as oblique as they are abstract. "I am not interested in specific nature," says Christ-Janer, "but in the feeling toward it. I have no message, belong to no schools or groups." His art invites contemplation, not as naturalistically as the 19th century Japanese master Hokusai, depicting the "floating world" in his Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji, but with the same aerial delicacy that defies the banalities of time...